How I Made Umahi Governor – Okorie

Abakaliki -A former member of the House of Representatives, Mr. Linus Okorie, who represented Ohaozara, Onicha and Ivo, Ohanivo, federal constituency, Monday revealed how he made numerous arrangements and connections that led to Umahi’s emergence as Governor in 2015.

Okorie, was the Senatorial candidate of Labour Party, LP, for Ebonyi South senatorial zone in the just concluded Presidential and National Assembly elections that were held on 25th, February, 2023.

The former member of Ebonyi State House of Assembly, Okorie, who has dragged the outgoing Governor and the All Progressives Congress, APC, to the Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abakaliki, stressed that he will retrieve his stolen mandate from the Governor against all odds.

Okorie had alleged that the Independent National Electoral commission, INEC, stole his mandate and gave it to Umahi during the last election.

According to him: “I got connected to the family of the former President Goodluck Jonathan, within my very first tenure in the House of Representatives. I was close enough by the Grace of God, that I had ears at a very important point.

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“And as late as February 2014, the issue of who becomes the Governor of Ebonyi state was raised by me and taken by me to the first family. I was the one who made the arrangement and the connection, the introduction of David Umahi as the Deputy Governor to the then Jonathan family.

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“I had the chance to run for Governor. I had the chance to run for the ticket of PDP governorship in Ebonyi State in 2015. Only the will of God, will ultimately give power to whom He wants to give power. But if I did, Umahi wouldn’t have gotten to where he is today because a lot of the effort that made him (Umahi) was mine and that of my wife.”

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